[mapguide-internals] Announcing MapGuide Projects

[Jason Birch]

I think the first and last are no brainers, would question the second.
 Too much potential for favouritism, etc.  Would run non-release
announcements past -internals.  Something like "if no objections in
next 24h"?  I think releases of Maestro, LiveDVD, officially
sanctioned stuff don't really need approval.

On 2010-04-15, Trevor Wekel <trevor_wekel at otxsystems.com> wrote:
> Hello PSC,
> Hello list,
>
> I just made a post to mapguide-announce regarding the LiveDVD project.  Tom
> and I thought it was appropriate since there was a "project announcement" in
> the past
>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapguide-announce/2007-March/000011.html
>
> Then Tom did some additional digging and found that the -announce list is
> only supposed to be used to disseminate release and security patch
> information.
>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapguide-announce/2007-March/000011.html
>
>
> Bummer deal.  According to the letter of the law, I should not have posted
> to -announce.  My bad.  On further reflection, I was wondering...
>
> Should we change the letter of the law?
>
> I believe we are missing out on a wonderful promotion opportunity.  I am
> sure our user base would love to know what is going on with MapGuide, who is
> using it (big/interesting implementations), and who is investing in it by
> sponsoring projects.
>
> The -announce list should remain low volume.  I would personally consider
> one announcement a week "low volume".  That would still give us to
> opportunity to make dozens of interesting announcements over the course of a
> year.  The announcements should probably be approved by a PSC member (or
> two).  How does this sound for an initial crack at -announce appropriate
> material:
>
> - Sponsorship of significant development work by the community (RFCs, new
> platform support, etc)
> - Unusual and/or publically visible MapGuide Implementations
> - New stuff to download for MapGuide (releases, samples, etc)
>
>
> Regards,
> Trevor
>
>